Tag: Welfare

The spread of Disability Living Allowance examines the spread of Disability Living Allowance across a group of low income households in an industrial town in North West England from the introduction of the new benefits in 1992 until the Spring of 1996. Access the abstract and details of the article on the Disability and Society journal … More The spread of Disability Living Allowance

Lone mothers, ethnicity and welfare dynamics analyses the chances of leaving means-tested benefit for a set of lone mothers in a single town, exploring whether there is variation by ethnic group. Access the abstract and details of the article from the Journal of Social Policy website Photo credit: Dani Alvarez

Long-term health conditions and Disability Living Allowance: exploring ethnic differences and similarities in access makes use of the Labour Force Survey data combined with detailed new qualitative work to examine patterns of receipt and issues of access to DLA across four ethnic groups. Access the article on the Sociology of Health and Illness website

Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics uses administrative data to explore benefit dynamics for children in Britain’s second largest city, Birmingham, over the period January 1998 to June 1999. As the benefits in question (housing benefit and council tax benefit) are means tested, the dynamics are also informative about moves in and out of low income. … More Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics

Ethnicity and inequality: British children’s experience of means-tested benefits explores ethnic group differences in the severity of child poverty in Britain. Using administrative data it looks at benefit receipt of families with children over a period of a year and a half. Building on existing work on ‘welfare dynamics’, but taking the child as the … More Ethnicity and inequality: British children’s experience of means-tested benefits